SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1990
AND THE RATE OF FALSE CALLS PEAKED AT TOTAL NUMBER OF CALLS IN 1989.
99.9 PER
CENT OF THE
ACCORDING TO MR HARRON, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ALARM AT 21,577 IN 1984 WITH ONLY 135 OF THEM TURNING OUT TO IN 1986, THE SAME SET OF FIGURES STOOD AT 30,202 AND 190 WHILE IN 1989, THE RESPECTIVE FIGURES WERE 47,423 AND 87.
BE
CALLS STOOD
GENUINE. RESPECTIVELY
PHASED HE SAID ONE COULD EASILY IMAGINE, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE
POLICE MANPOWER RESPONSE SYSTEM, THE AMOUNT OF
SPENT ON ATTENDING
ALARM CALLS.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS EMERGENCY UNIT TEAM AND
PREVIOUSLY, EVERY ALARM CALL, GENUINE AND FALSE, WOULD BE ATTENDED BY AN OFFICERS WOULD WAIT FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE KEYHOLDERS, WHICH COULD HOURS LATER.
BE
SCHEME WOULD NOT THE SUCCESS OF SUCH A PHASED RESPONSE
ONLY
OFFICERS BY REDUCE THE WORKLOAD OF POLICE
ELIMINATING FALSE ALARM THEIR ALERTNESS WHENEVER THEY GO CALLS BUT ALSO ENHANCE
OUT AND
ATTEND AN ALARM CALL, ACCORDING TO MR HARRON.
-
"ROBOTCOP" WELL-LIKED BY CHILDREN
THOUSANDS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, THEIR PARENTS
HAVE VOTED FIVE-FOOT-TWO "ROBOTCOP" ONE OF
TEACHERS WELL-LIKED POLICEMEN IN THE TERRITORY.
AND THEIR THE
MOST
OF THIS IN THE BUSY
SINCE ARRIVING IN HONG KONG A YEAR AGO THE POPULARITY 180-POUND ANIMATED ROBOT HAS GROWN AND CAN BE REFLECTED APPOINTMENT SCHEDULE - AT LEAST FOUR VISITS A WEEK TO SCHOOLS.
GOT HIS MINDERS PREACHING ANTI-CRIME
BUT THE LABORIOUS LINE-UP OF ENGAGEMENTS HAS WORRYING ABOUT THE PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE POLICEMAN.
SHOULDER
ΤΟ ANYONE "SO FAR WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO COMMISSION
U.S.-MADE "ROBOTCOP"," WOMAN SENIOR THE REGULAR MAINTENANCE OF THE
MRS BEATRICE TANG, INSPECTOR OF THE POLICE CRIME PREVENTION BUREAU, SAID.
IS A BREAKDOWN, OFFICER-IN-CHARGE OF THE "ROBOTCOP" MISSION.
H
"WE NOW HAVE TO RELY A LOT ON OUR COLLEAGUES FROM THE
REPAIR ALARMS INSPECTION UNIT WHO RENDER EMERGENCY THERE
EXPLAINED MRS
TANG,
SERVICE
WHO
INTRUDER WHENEVER
IS
THE
/"HIS 'WALKING
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